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Hi My name is ‘Jameliah Penfield’ and I am Owner / Director and Yoga Instructor at Bikram Yoga Studio, Ashburn, Virginia. First of all, I want to say thanks to you for visiting at my website & blog, exploring more about Bikram Yoga. Here you will find latest news and videos related to your health and Bikram Yoga which is original 105 degree hot yoga. Please feel free to explore more and drop me a line about my contribution in yoga. For more inquiries, please fill up contact page and some one from my studio will contact you shortly.

Don’t miss this radio interview with Emmy Cleaves! Yoga is Life Radio Wednesday at 8 AM Pacific Share September 24, 2014: Talking Yoga with Emmy Cleaves We will talk with the magnificent Emmy Cleaves about the great healing and restorative power of proper Yoga practice, about the physical and mental aspects of Hatha Yoga Asana practice, including it’s bio-energetic effects — how it works. We will also talk about her 60 years of practicing Yoga, and her relationship with Bikram Yoga, which she has been teaching and practicing since 1973, as the Principal teacher at the Yoga College of India Headquarters in Los Angeles, and Bikram’s Yoga Teacher Training (since 1993). More...

Share THANK YOU Happy 7th Anniversary to us and you for being a patron at our studio! July marks our 7th year and we are so happy to be serving this community , Limited time, Hurry and get the early bird specials at online store or simply, come in! SORRY ! This offer is no longer available This offer has been expired by Jul 31st, 2014 12 classes for $165 (limited time only) 30 classes for $399 (limited time only) Annual Special $ 999 Jameliah Penfield | Director and...

Share Yoga Guru Bikram Choudhury was granted Honoris Causa by the Mexican Parliament for his contribution to the world of health and happiness The Mexican Parliament delivered Doctor Honoris Causa to various national personalities and abroad in the Hall “Legislators of the Republican” in the House of Representatives. They received the title of men and women who have excelled in various professional fields such as martial arts, health, education and altruistic actions. The award ceremony was organized by the Universities of Cambridge, UK; Murcia, Spain, and National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). The director of the American Cultural Institute, Ruben Manriquez Angel Salas, handed out the awards. Title is honorary Doctor Honoris Causa and gives some university eminent people who are not necessarily graduates in a career. Also obtained the title was the Hindu Yoga teacher, Bikram Choudhury for his excellent contribution in health to mankind, as he is the creator of 26 postures that constitute a theory that allows choreographic sequences and health benefits. Yoga Teacher asked the federal government to create a university that imparted yoga. Bikram says, ” If you follow my instruction and do my yoga postures Sequence to the best of your ability, you will live a better, healthier and more peaceful life”. Y ogiraj Bikram Choudhury is the founder of the worldwide Yoga College of India. Born in Calcutta in 1946, Bikram began Yoga at the age of four with India’s most-renowned physical culturist at that time, Bishnu Ghosh, the younger brother of Paramahansa Yogananda (Author of the most popular book on Yoga, The Autobiography of a Yogi, and founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles). Bikram practiced Yoga at least four to six hours every day at Ghosh’s College of Physical Education in Calcutta. At the age of thirteen, he won the National India Yoga Championship. He was undefeated for the following three years and retired as the undisputed All-India National Yoga...

Happy Summer!!! As mentioned before, we have changed our schedule for summer (July and August) and we also have July 4th Weekend Special Timings . Please check our ‘Day & Timings’ Page. Go to Page We hope you have a happy holiday and enjoy the wonderful weather this Summer!

About Advanced Seminar and Yoga Championships My Advanced Seminar scheduled for Phuket, Thailand on June 22, 2014 will be the last openly public Advanced Seminar I will be doing. There will also be no more Bishnu Ghosh Yoga Championship after this year’s International Finals in London in May, or relationship with Bikram Yoga and any Yoga Championships for now. There are times when self reflection is necessary to redirect things when they are moving in the wrong direction. In my Teacher Trainings and Lectures, I often talk about the importance in Yoga Vedanta, to “keep your two feet in one boat,” to stay on the line, the direct journey to your destination. One hair off the line, and the further you go, the farther away you get, until one day you’ve travelled in a complete circle, and like a yellow cab in Manhattan, you end up standing in the same parking space where you started, with 250,000 miles on your odometer, you’ve gone nowhere, or at least lost somewhere far from your ultimate destination. You cannot start your journey if you don’t know your destination, but you’ll never get there if you are facing the wrong direction, or go off the line. I have been thinking a lot over the past couple of years about the direction Bikram Yoga has been taking, and I do accept some responsibility for it. Since the big Centennial Yoga Expo in 2003, where we initiated the Bishnu Ghosh Cup International Yoga Asana Championship, to commemorate the incredible and profound influence my Guru has had on Physical Culture throughout and beyond the 20th Century, the spread and practice of the Advanced Class of 84 Postures has increased to where it is out of control. I have been hearing many stories of people getting injured and developing chronic problems from the attempt to practice all 84 Postures. My Guru, Bishnu Charan Ghosh sent me to Japan and to the West because he saw what I had created with the system of 26 Beginning Postures, 2 Breathing Exercises, a way to bring the practice of Yoga Asana as a means of improving and maintaining health therapeutically, and increasing longevity of life, in a way no one else had been able to do. He was committed to the mission of his brother, Paramahansa Yogananda, who was told by his Guru Sri Yukteswar Giriji, that he would be the one to introduce the Science of Yoga to the Western World. But the accessibility to every person was ultimately quite limited, discriminating, only for few. Many of the great Yogis who followed Yogananda over from India, who tried to introduce Hatha Yoga to the West, like Swami Sivananda and even my Guru Bishnu Ghosh, gave up because they saw the western body was not made to do many of the Postures the way they had been taught for centuries in India. A few who learned from them, and others who came, then changed the Yoga to try to fit the western body and way of life, and compromised the primary principles of Hatha Yoga Asana. My Guru recognized and saw in the system I created, the way Yoga could be successfully taught in the West and the rest of the world on a wide scale. If you try to fit Yoga into junkyard bodies,...